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In the fall of 2002, at the same time that the U.S. brought its concerns to the U.N. Security Council and argued that action needed to be taken to completely eliminate Iraqi holdings of, and its ability to produce, WMD, the CIA released an unclassified version of its new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraqi WMD, which contained several satellite images of Iraqi facilities of concern. Images were also released at the time President Bush gave an October 7 speech on the Iraqi issue and the following day as part of a Defense Department briefing on Iraqi denial and deception. The "Abu Ghurayb BW Facility," which Iraq claimed was a baby milk factory. U.S. intelligence had classified it as biological warfare facility since 1988, and Image 9 is one of several (including some from commercial satellites) presented in the DoD briefing in October 2002 on Iraqi denial and deception. "Fallujah/Habbaniyah," https://www.globalsecurity.org; Central Intelligence Agency, Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs, p.11; DoD, Iraqi Denial and Deception for Weapons of Mass Destruction & Ballistic Missile Programs, slide 14; "Abu Ghurabyb, Project 600," https://www.fas.org.
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Show Your Stripes change in temperature graphic for Abū Ghurayb, Iraq with labels. These warming stripe graphics are visual representations of the change in temperature as measured in each country, region or city over the past 100+ years. Each stripe or bar represents the temperature in that country, region or city averaged over a year. Data for this graphic is from Berkeley Earth (BK).
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Abū Ghurayb

Baghdad, Iraq · Asia

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Abū Ghurayb sits on the route: 25 minutes from Baghdad.

Abū Ghurayb is in Baghdad, Iraq, with about 900,000 people. The nearest town is Baghdad, about 20 km away.

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Population
900,000
Continent
Asia
Country
Iraq
Region
Baghdad
Timezone
Asia/Baghdad
Coordinates
33.3056, 44.1848

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